FreeB12 FROH photo

[Action Tiger]

This smart phone coerced me onto the web. Then I found the FreeB offsets and kudzu site and forum.

This is not my first rodeo.

I will post a picture when I put some clothes on her.

Thanks for the offsets.

When I figure out the store, I'll buy some stuff to repay you.

By the way. FROH is no typo. Frame Resting On Horses. Got no grass...

[Action Tiger]

I'm sorry. I thought I had attached a photo link thing.

I'll get help...

[Action Tiger]

I think I got it.

[P Doug (WA)]

That's a good looking FROH picture.  Good job!

[Action Tiger]

Thank you. It was great fun.

I need to fire up the steambox and make the coaming.

[Action Tiger]

Just for fun, the stringers.

I normally get wood from a local small mill, not lumberyards. I happened to be in one with my son, and found a perfect 2×10 someone wanted to make into a deck, or something worse.

We saved it and made a boat. And then fixed the fence.

[Richard Peter]

I normally get wood from a local small mill, not lumberyards. I happened to be in one with my son, and found a perfect 2×10 someone wanted to make into a deck, or something worse. We saved it and made a boat. And then fixed the fence.

The boat looks great, can't wait to see it skinned. I was in the lumber yard today and found a piece of 1x6 clear spruce. I had to do a double take because there were no knots in it. It's nice to make a find like that... And build a boat out of it!

[Action Tiger]

Update: coaming form done, but no suitable coaming wood on hand. Too short!

Trip to mill next week?

Racing another Iron Man in a little over 8 weeks, so training and resting a lot.

Kudzu Jeff will be the first to know when skinning is imminent, because I will have just purchased some recycled poly.

Another couple of weeks, folks...

[Richard Peter]

I'm in the process of drafting the FreeB and noticed that the measurements for the stern section only outline the trailing edge of the boat. What did you do to come up with the shape of your stern section?

[Action Tiger]

I didn't take any pictures while I built, so no photos.

I cut the stem profiles out of poster board chunks oversized in every other direction.

Then I clamped them in the proper attitude onto the stringers.

Then I traced the stringer edges onto the poster board.

Then I drew a stem shaped thingy using the stringer lines and precut profile, cut it out, and used it as a pattern.

I may have done it wrong.

[Richard Peter]

That is what I was thinking of doing as well. It sounds like a reasonable idea to me so I will probably follow your lead on this one.

Thanks

Richard